Foreground and background in the narrative discourse of Luke's Gospel: Some remarks on the function of the Greek imperfect and pluperfect indicative tense-forms
The distinction between foreground and background in narrative discourse is a pervasive phenomenon in the literatures of the world, and languages have a variety of devices to indicate this distinction. The use of the tense-forms of the verb for this purpose has been studied in a variety of languages...
Main Author: | Du Toit, Herman Carel |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | Afrikaans |
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Stellenbosch University
2020-03-01
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Series: | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus |
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Online Access: | https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/800 |
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